Abbot Academy

"Enter into the understanding that you may go forth into nobler living," proclaim the Abbot Gates.

One of the first educational institutions in New England founded for girls and women, Abbot Academy opened its doors to seventy students on May 6, 1829 and flourished until Abbot Academy and Phillips Academy merged on June 28, 1973.

Abbot@Andover

As an ad-hoc committee of the Alumni Council, Abbot@Andover celebrates and facilitates interaction among Abbot Alumnae and perpetuates Abbot's spirit within the Andover Community.

View the digital collection of the Abbot archives. If interested in additional information, please contact Paige Roberts, director of Archives and Special Collections at 978-749-4069 or by e-mail at abbotarchives@andover.edu.

The Girls of Abbot: A film written, produced, and directed by Charles Stuart '62.

Abbot Academy Fund

For more than 40 years, the Abbot Academy Fund (previously called the Abbot Academy Association) has celebrated its mission to "preserve the spirit, dignity, and high standard of the Abbot Academy tradition and to provide an additional means of carrying on the educational aims of Abbot Academy at Phillips Academy through support of students, faculty, staff, and properties at Phillips Academy."

The Abbot Academy Fund was established with $1 million from Abbot Academy's unrestricted funds in June 1973, as part of the merger agreement between Abbot Academy and Phillips Academy. The fund operates as an internal foundation with its own board of directors. Its goal is to preserve the history, standards, tradition, and name of Abbot Academy by funding new educational ventures at the combined school.

In May 2017, the board of directors voted to recognize the organization by a new name—Abbot Academy Fund—in order to better reflect its mission.

In the past, many of Andover's fine programs—both large and small—were seeded with Abbot Academy Fund monies. For more information, contact Abbey Siegfried, faculty liaison to the Abbot Academy Fund, or Liz George, assistant to the Abbot Academy Fund.